Buckwheat Groats - "Arbor Day Party" (NSFW)

There seems to be no shortage of spring holidays with meanings obscured long-ago by the excuse they provide for excessive partying. For Americans, it’s Cinco de Mayo. For Europeans, it’s May Day. For just about everyone, it’s St. Patrick’s Day. And for New York’s Buckwheat Groats (AKA Penis Bailey and Lil’ Dinky), it’s apparently Arbor Day, providing the excuse for a lot of things, only some of them even vaguely botanical. A sped-up new wave chorus, for example, with a blown-out, tree-sap-thick beat behind it courtesy of St. Louis producer Fatty Eisenhower. It also has hip-hop comedy that loves—and knows—its target. “Arbor Day Party” is as much an overstatement of party anthems as it is itself a great party anthem.

If it looks and sounds slightly luxurious (read: bacchanalian), it should, having been produced in part by Adam McKay/Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die after they saw the Groats making dinner and trolling for underage mallrats. Inspirational Verse: “Now it’s getting late, nitrous tank tapped out / Everybody blacked out / Looking like a crackhouse / People on the floor passed out with they ass out / DJ so high, he starts blasting Smash Mouth.”

Benjamin is a fairweather cinephile and closet pop pushover from the affluent swamplands of Princeton, New Jersey. Nestled happily in the moist cocoon of post-graduate work at Northwestern University, he writes on music in his fleeting spare time and should probably be ignored at all costs.